"turning center" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: turning centers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} turning center (plural turning centers)
  1. (manufacturing) Any of a class of machine tools with computerized control and actuation (usually and especially of the CNC type) whose primary action is turning and boring as opposed to milling: archetypally, a computerized lathe or screw machine (as opposed to a computerized milling machine). Categories (topical): Manufacturing Hypernyms: machining center (english: in the broader sense of that term) Coordinate_terms: lathe, screw machine, Swiss-turn Coordinate_terms (machining center (in the narrower sense of that term)): horizontal machining center (alt: HMC), vertical machining center (alt: VMC)

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